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Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

~T.S. Eliot
🎨Tuesday Ridell

"The Owl and the Siren"

🎨 John Byrne 

#owlishmonday

Woman and owl sitting side by side on a crescent moon, appearing to have a conversation.

'The Witch’s Daughter'
by Frederick Stuart Church
Engraving by J. P. Davys (1881)

#OwlishMonday

Painting (oil on wood, 1896). A girl sits in a vernal landscape. She has yellow flowers in her hair. Her full green skirt is patterned all over with blue and white flowers. Either side of her there is a tree with buds beginning to appear on the branches and small birds perching on them.

Spring
by Harald Slott-Møller

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

John Meyer (South African, b.1942)
"Night Shift," 2020
Mixed media on canvas
122 x 92 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

An old, old being amidst beeches, beasts and barrows in the New Forest...

Our 7th #darkspringtide tale brings us to Hampshire during the Wars of the Roses where we meet our Lady of the Stags, which makes this a proper #bookwormsat story today!

Read it below.

🎨 Warwick Goble

‘Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.’ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. #BookWormSat

Illustration for Marie, Queen of Romania's story, Dreamer of Dreams. The night sky is strewn with stars, a magical woman in sparkling white clothes stands barefoot in the snow. Either side of her stands a white bear. Her outstretched hand has blood on it. The text tells us she is holding three tiny broken hearts - 'and drops of blood stained the white fingers of the snow-maiden.'

"I am the queen of these vast regions of snow
- my home is yonder, where none dare dwell -
and on nights when the moon shines bright I come out of my
castle of ice and wander over this desert of white..."

The Ice Maiden and her bears for #BookWormSat

🖋️ Marie of Romania
🎨 Edmund Dulac

Painting. Three children play on a frozen river near a large old house, two more figures are at the edge of the river. Trees and bushes in the background. This is one of two versions held in The V & A Collection.

Snow Scene: The Haunted House
by Georg Emil Libert, 1847

#PhantomsFriday

'Spring Messengers'. Painting depicting the coming of spring as a classical bridal couple accompanied by birds flying across a green landscape.

'The year stood at its equinox
And bluff the North was blowing,
A bleat of lambs came from the flocks,
Green hardy things were growing'
~Christina Rossetti

🎨 Dominique Lang
#BookologyThursday

Naturalists

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.

~Mary Cantwell
🎨Edmund Dulac #BookologyThursday

An original mixed media artwork of a hare with barley and a harvest moon. Created on mulberry paper, using acrylic paints and copper leaf.

The Corn Mother is a widespread mythological figure across folklore, representing agriculture, fertility, and the cycle of crops. She often appears as a nurturing figure who sacrifices herself—through burning or being banished—to bring food, such as corn or grain, to humanity.
#BookologyThursday

'A Study, in March' by John William Inchbold c. 1855 The painting was reportedly inspired by lines from Wordsworth's 'Excursion': 'When the primrose flower peeped forth to give an earnest of the spring.' An oil painting of a bright spring day in the countryside. A path leads up a small ridge, the trees are bare against the blue sky. On top of the ridge are an ewe and two lambs. In the foreground, primrose and harebells.

It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
…
Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.

#BookologyThursday

#bookologythursday

Illustration of a winged fairy wearing a blue and white dress, with daisies in her hair. She is kneeling on the grass, tending to some daffodils.

'Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills.'
~L. M. Montgomery

🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Monochrome print depicting three robed figures with arms raised, on a grassy bank scattered with flowers. There are trees and more hills in the distance, and a full moon and some stars in the sky. Paper, pen and ink, 1934. Signed 'AL AARAAF', Hannah Frank's pen name.

Moon Ballet
by Hannah Frank

Artwork of a woman with black hair in a bright yellow dress holding flowers. Leafless tree in the background.

Spring's Promise, Marjorie Miller (circa 1925).

Inside a church a young veiled bride dressed in white kneels upon a red velvet upholstered chair. A man in a black suit with a thin moustache stands alongside her.

Not only did the bridal veil originate to protect the bride from evil spirits, it has also been suggested the veil protected the congregation from the liminal power of the bride herself... #MorbidMarch 🎨 Albert Guillaume

The #wormmoon shines tonight and all kinds of ghoulies, ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties walk - and us, of course, up in the borderlands between Scotland and England, where we meet some of them in our 3rd #darkspringtide tale - read it below!

🎨 Franklin Booth

A full moon in the sky reflected on still water on which a boat with three people is passing. Reeds grow on the shore in the foreground.

'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's.
#FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Painting of an owl with ear tufts sitting on branches that are bare of leaves but on which the first petals are starting to open.

#OwlishMonday 'Early Plum Blossoms' by Nishimura Goun (1936), painted on silk

An example of the surreal, enigmatic, dreamlike art of Gertrude Abercrombie. 'The Queen' depicts a woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue gown with a long train, and a crown. She carries a sceptre/wand. She is standing in a bare room with a dark red floor, her gaze turned towards us. Perched on a ledge behind her is an owl, who holds up the end of the train in its beak.

"Surrealism is meant for me. I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed. Then I change it to the way I want it."
~Gertrude Abercrombie

🎨 The Queen, 1954
#OwlishMonday

Painting depicting women in flowing white gowns dancing hand in hand on lush grass around a tree, which sits in the centre of the scene. Painted in 1913. Thought to be inspired by the dancer Isadora Duncan.

🌿A Song of Spring
by Maximilian Lenz

A bleak, stark oil painting in shades of brown and cream of waterlogged fields under a flat white sky dotted with bare elm trees

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘February Fill Dyke’
Artist: Rowland Hilder

A library. A slender old man with a book in his hat gazes towards a window which is illuminating a startlingly yellow cockatoo.

Weird picture of the day: 'Library' by Franz Sedlacek.
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #artsky #MagicalRealism

Painting of the three witches around a cauldron, sadly no Graymalkin…

‘I come, Graymalkin.’ ~ First Witch, Macbeth, Shakespeare. 🐈‍⬛ #BookWormSat
🖼️ Daniel Gardner, 1775.

Black white illustration of Scotland Yard looking for Macavity, the mystery cat, with flashlights. The cat is flying through the night sky. Full moon.

'Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!'
-T.S. Eliot

🎨Edward Gorey
#BookWormSat

A ‘bunnikins’ style illustration of a mouse in red coat boots high up in a tree with a black bird. He has lost his family and the blackbird is helping him to a good vantage point.

Ladybird book in the spotlight.
Lost at the Fair, 1948
Artist: A Macgregor